[discostu]

No it does revolve around it, everybody eventually get's to some varioat of this sentence "well since current music sucks anyway who cares if the industry dies". That's neither interesting nor a side issue, truthfully it has NOTHING to do with it, but that's your final conclusion, that even if I'm right and you're wrong who cares because it all sucks anyway.

[Not Insane]

__That's neither interesting nor a side issue, truthfully it has NOTHING to do with it, but that's your final conclusion,__

No, it's not my final conclusion. There is a lot of good music being produced today. Unfortunately, almost none of it is what you would call "popular." Good music comes from the heart and not the need for more money. An economically based music industry will produce a lot of over-hyped crap. An art based music industry will produce music for the mind, soul and heart.

I go for quality over quantity.

[steve-b]

everybody eventually get's to some varioat of this sentence "well since current music sucks anyway who cares if the industry dies".

Beethoven survived perfectly well without the incumbent industry. Enema-em would be utterly lost without it. That tells me pretty much all I need to know about its worth.